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From the HWFC Constitution:

"where faculty are committed to teaching and serving students; where enthusiasm and morale are high; and where faculty professionalism and dedication find full expression, working in harmony with students, staff, and administration to fulfill the mission of the college"

3 thoughts on “First contact with the contract”

So after scrolling through the new contract, I noticed that faculty ‘raises’ (or mostly ‘non-raises’) includes for Fall 13 only, a change in step (as it says “In addition, each current full-time faculty member will be granted a one full step increase effective at the beginning of the fall semester of 2013.”)…but no where can I find language to clarify if the step is based on the step system of the old contract or if it is a new system – basically, in trying to figure out my salary for this upcoming Fall – I was stumped. Any insight on how this works? Or am I missing something really obvious in the contract?

Nope. The 11% number is for “Lane Advance.” The promise was for a one-time, full step increase.

For anyone interested, the info is in section VI.A.1. A full step for all FTers, based on Spring 2013 schedule in the old contract and annual 2.5% increases after that effective on your start date (after July 14th). So instead of fall hires getting a slight tick upward from spring to fall and then a half step in January of varying size, it’ll be a compounding, one-time, annual raise that is (hopefully) below the inflation index.